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Compendia Music Group Announces Key Staff Appointments
 join the Nashville-based label
NASHVILLE, TN - (Feb. 25, 2003) – The following key staff appointments to Compendia Music Group were announced by Michael Olsen, president of Compendia Music Group:

• Industry veteran Ric Pepin joins the Compendia Music label as vice president of promotion and marketing. Pepin will oversee radio promotion and marketing for the Compendia Music label; he will be based in the Nashville office, and will report to Walt Wilson, VP/GM of the Compendia Music label.

• Also joining Compendia Music Group is mastering expert Glenn Meadows, formerly of Masterfonics, who will assume the responsibility of all in-house mastering for the record company’s four labels: Compendia Music, Light Records, Life² and Intersound Music. Compendia Music Group’s mastering operations, previously housed in their distribution center in Atlanta, Georgia, have been relocated to the Nashville office, where Meadows will be based. Meadows will report to Olsen.

Ric Pepin has over twenty years of experience in the music industry, working at both major and independent labels and distribution companies in a variety of executive positions. His twelve-year association with BMG included stints at RCA Records and BMG Distribution and culminated in his role as vice president and general manager of country record label BNA; Pepin launched the label in 1991, working with artists such as John Anderson, Lorrie Morgan and Doug Supernaw. Additionally, Pepin was vice president and general manager of Unison Music, a division of Word Entertainment/Gaylord, and senior vice president and general manager of Pamplin Music Group where he worked with Natalie Grant, Sierra and Linda McKechnie.

Recently, Pepin was a consultant on the new Joan Osborne album, HOW SWEET IT IS, for Compendia Music Group, directing marketing and promotion activities. Prior to joining the Compendia Music staff, Pepin worked with Southwest Distribution and the Smith Music Group as an A&R consultant.

Glenn Meadows started in the recording business in 1973 in that era’s state-of-the-art studio, Atlanta’s Sound Pit; there he worked with such artists as Mothers Finest, Sammy Johns and Gladys Knight and the Pips. While at that legendary studio he learned the craft of Mastering that has become his signature contribution to the music industry. After a move to Nashville in the late 70s, he joined the company Masterfonics, then only 2 years old, eventually becoming the sole owner of the company by 1989.

While overseeing the expansion and development of Masterfonics, Meadows continued to handle the mastering duties for a full client load, including work with artists such as Steely Dan, Shania Twain, Vince Gill, Jimmy Buffett, Johnny Cash, Alabama, John Denver, Steve Earle, Amy Grant, Isaac Hayes, Waylon Jennings, George Jones, The Judds, Lyle Lovett, Shelby Lynne, Reba McEntire, Tim McGraw, Bill Monroe, Willie Nelson, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Olivia Newton-John, Linda Ronstadt, George Strait, Hank Williams Jr. and many, many others.

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